TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 306, 28 December 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fatal railway : accident. ; ",'">" Business resumed-to-day. _ ■■•■■ • Zola has gone to England. / ■ 'Graphic' published to-day. ' Intercolonial yacht race to-day. Serious railway collision in Kent. \ The Melbourne Waxworks to-night.: .;.; North Shore Native Regatta proceed-"-. ing. ' ;•.:... ■.■■,...■.. ■ •■■■.■• :: ■ ■ /,■:. ' ".* A.R.C.1 Summer Meeting -at Ellerslie-to-morrow. \ ■ ' '. ' Will Watkins at the Melbourne. Waxworks to-night. ■ ■;■; Naval and military display at; the -: Exhibition to-night. • .;;..*.:.-' • 'The Gay Parisienne' drew another? crowded house last evening. -..;. ■ ;- About eleven thousand people visits ed the Exhibition yesterday. The Wazirjs, on the Indian frontier, are .making iraids into Afghanistan." _- ;\V Maori canoe races, dances,- etc., : atv the North Shore to-morrow afternoon*:", ;" .The."11 military funeral ;of the '■■ late* Major Jamejs Derrom takes place to-' morrow afternoon. ' '. :' ' Eight yachts entered for the inter-, colonial: one-rater .race in Auckland;: harbour this afternoon: • . Five hundred Maoris are now encamped in the temporary native settle- - ment.it the* Calliope Dock. : i The wakaltaua (wai' canoe) race f oi.'■'■_ £100 is to take place at the Nori.li, Shore next Saturday afternoon. . Frank. Poland,',a young' railway em- *■ ployee, received fatal injuries at theY Auckland railway goods shed yestei1-' day afternoon. , ■ No, 10 L.O. Lodge's meeting will be held in the Protest ant Hall to-night.,;, not Foresters' Hall, as in error prfrS viously advertised. - ; : .This evening will be the last .OTtf which Itawei .will give his interesting^ entertainment 'The Land of the Maori' in the Foresters' Hall, Karangahaptf Road. / '■ >■ ;., '-« ; Pictures of the' Exhibition, coiirtsand exhibits and special holiday pic-; torial and reading matter are among.the attractions in this weeks; 'Graphic' : ."'''', A deputation from . the Queen's Stahie' Committee having waited upon;: Colonel. Banks iii .reference to ;' v tha: militarj r tournament funds: be{ng\de-^ voted to charities, that officer has con-' sented to. another meeting being,held to l'econsider the matter. .The meeting- which was to have b.een held to^ morrow evening is therefore . postponed. ... . • ■■.■■':•■ ., A presentation was made last Satur-. day to Mr W. O'Meara, foreman in the'machine and planing department ofthe Kauri Timber -Co., by the em-' ployees in that department. The presentation consisted of an electropplatect butter dish and knife, the occasion: being Mr O'Meara's .departure' from the mill.: Mr, T.H. White,: mill, riian-v ,agei% made the presentation, and nx a speech wished. the> recipient everyj happiness: and prosperity., ■ ~,, »

Smith and; Catighey Jiaxe , purchased; a special job line of .fast colour, Titania striped muslin marked iat ,5-id : per yard, 25 per cent; under wholesale price.—(Ad.) ' ■ ■ '-